In April of 1985, the first issue of the ground-breaking, twelve issue Crisis on Infinite Earths (Wolfman, et al, 1986) was published. This event, which was easily the biggest in DC Comics at that point (and for many years), saw…
Audiences were first introduced to the horrific, biomechanical Xenomorphs in the classic science-fiction horror film Alien (Scott, 1979), a tense and suspense-filled monster film that kick-started an entire franchise. In that film, and much of the subsequent Alien media, an…
Released: February 2010Developer: Rebellion DevelopmentsAlso Available For: PC and PlayStation 3 The Background:I’ve mentioned this before but Aliens vs. Predator has been a thing for a long, long time now. These two iconic science-fiction/horror franchises first came to blows in…
Released: 8 July 2022Director: Taika WaititiDistributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion PicturesBudget: $250 millionStars: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Tessa Thompson, Taika Waititi, and Russell Crowe The Plot:After helping to restore half the universe’s population to life, Thor Odinson (Hemsworth)…
Released: 24 June 2016Director: Roland EmmerichDistributor: 20th Century FoxBudget: $165 millionStars: Liam Hemsworth, Maika Monroe, Jessie Usher, Jeff Goldblum, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Bill Pullman The Plot:It’s been twenty years since the Earth successfully defeated an alien invasion and, since then,…
Released: 30 October 2007Developer: EA Redwood ShoresAlso Available For: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable The Background:The Simpsons was created by Matt Groening as a series of short cartoons created for The Tracey Ullman Show; jumping…
Audiences were first introduced to the horrific, biomechanical Xenomorphs in this classic science-fiction horror film in which an unsuspecting cargo crew investigates a beacon on the barren world of LV-426 and, as a result, the 26th of April is widely…
Released: 2 May 2008Director: Jon FavreauDistributor: Paramount PicturesBudget: $140 millionStars: Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Bridges, Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Shaun Toub The Plot:Billionaire industrialist and arms manufacturer Anthony “Tony” Stark (Downey Jr.) finds himself humbled after his own weaponry…
Gillian Church posts Writing Prompts every week on her Horror Prompts Instagram account and I like to take part with a few snippets and pieces of flash fiction. The Prompt:Do you think it could be…aliens? The Submission:Private Lance swallowed deeply…
January sees the celebration of two notable dates in science-fiction history, with January 2 christened “National Science Fiction Day” to coincide with the birth date of the world renowned sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov, and HAL 9000, the sophisticated artificial intelligence…
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